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[quote=Anonymous]Our apartment is pretty tidy. About 1000 square feet, but only one kid. I'm not a naturally organized person but I work pretty hard at it. My DH is a pack rat by nature, but has seen the light on having less stuff (it helps me that he has also seen what a nightmare his parents' refusal to get rid of things has created in their home). My DD is... a 3 yr old, with all that entails. But with just one, it feels manageable and not overwhelming. We are all on something akin to a "one in, one out" policy on clothes and toys and kitchen gadgets. We do tend to collect books, but those are fairly easy to store (and even then, we try to do a lot of library books so they don't stay with us forever).

For me, the best thing is to have a cleaning/tidying schedule. We tidy up every evening before dinner and family time. Tidying up my DD's toys is part of her bedtime routine, which includes getting everything put away in her room and collecting things from around the house and putting them where they go in her room. But it applies to my husband and I, too -- we try not to leave reading material or projects lying around. It's really nice to have clean surfaces in each room, and I can't stand when places like the kitchen counter or the coffee table wind up with piles of random stuff. Mail gets sorted, opened, and recycled when it arrives. Work materials get put away at the end of a work session.

And I like having places for things to go. We have wall hooks and good shelving and deep closets. it makes cleaning so much easier because you don't have to find a place for everything as you clean -- it goes where it goes.[/quote]

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